Booker T. Washingtion and Web Dubois

Booker T. Washington uses the metaphor of the fingers and the hand to alleviate the pressures felt by both whites and blacks. Whites did not want to feel forced into interaction while a lot of blacks would have probably felt resentment towards having to interact with whites. In the passage preceding this declaration, he states, “we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach…interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one.” He directly communicates and uses the word civil in an effort to show that he is for equality in facets of society where it is most prevalent. Social appears to mean all aspects in which interaction among African Americans is recreational, like going to a play or movie or eating at a restaurant. Furthermore, I think Washington gives leeway in case things do change in that if it so happens that what is social becomes of civil interest, that too, would become apart of the hand of mutual progress.

In the case of W.E.B. DuBois, he pairs the word civil